Email sent to Councillor Murray Lyle
Council Budget Debate 06/03/20
Dear Murray,
As you know from my email of Thursday 12 March re the Fossoway Crossing Patroller on the A977 (the somewhat academic exercise now given school closures), I was disappointed at the outcome of the debate and the absence of dialogue between your administration and the Independent Group of Councillors.
You would note that our budget featured resources for a Kinross-shire ‘pilot’ area committee, feasibility studies for a railway link to Kinross (PKC Policy), Regional Park initiatives (Ochil Hills and extension of Lomond Hills Park to Loch Leven) and a reassessment of the local landscape designations lost for the Cleish Hills and Devon Gorge (after a flawed consultants exercise).
What is disappointing is that I have raised these matters in correspondence and meetings with you recently but discussion is pointless if no resources are allocated, which they haven’t been by your administration. We may well, as a group, revisit some of this through the Capital Budget debate and I would sincerely hope for an improved dialogue when that eventually takes place.
Yours sincerely,
Councillor Michael Barnacle
Independent Member for Kinross-shire